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How to make a bootable Linux Mint USB stick

Fri, 2012-03-09 09:25 | by Samuel Lampa

Creating the bootable device

Download a Linux Mint image from here
If you’re under Ubuntu, use Startup Disk Creator (installed by default)
If you’re under Windows, use Univeral USB Installer, free and available here
The rest is pretty straightforward…

Fixing a common problem
Once your USB device is “ready”, you will get the following error if you try booting from it:
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vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image
boot:

After some short research I found the following fix, which is very simple to apply, and completely solves the problem:

Browse the USB device to the syslinux folder
Open and edit the syslinux.cfg file
The first line should read: default vesamenu.c32
Change it to: default live
Save and close the file